I recently gave a tutorial at Velocity Conference in Santa Clara about some of the amazing features that lie within the browsers we use everyday. As web developers, we are pretty lucky to have such awesome developer tools at our disposal. After the tutorial was complete, a few people asked
As web developers, we often need the ability to retrieve data from the server in order to update our applications asynchronously. Traditionally this data is retrieved using JavaScript and the XMLHttpRequest object. A simple example of this might look something like the code below. In the code above, there are
The web is full of PDFs floating around out there. How many times have you tried to open a PDF file on a machine and not had the correct software installed? It can be very frustrating. For most users out there they already have the correct software installed to view
As developers today, our websites are constantly being accessed from different forms of devices - PC's, Mac's, iPhones, Blackberry's, iPads - and the list goes on! Developing websites and content that conforms to all these standards can be a nightmare. Luckily, jQuery has just
Some of the articles written on this site are pretty image intensive and take up a lot of resources when loading up. An awesome way to improve page load times as well as providing a better user experience is to use lazy loading for your site. There is a excellent